On this blog, and in someofthe template sites, I've installed squark's minimal editor CSS package with some tweaks to reduce the editor toolbar to 1 line of icons, and hide some of the rarely used links.

Gabrys comments that it's possible to make a nicer 1-line editor toolbar. But personally I prefer the minimal look. What do you think? Should we install this minimalist toolbar into all the non-beginner template sites? Should we make a nicer 1-line editor toolbar?

To get this minimalist editor, by the way, add this to your custom CSS page:

I dunno. Maybe it's just a guru thing, but 'cause I use Wikidot all the time, I tend to say type the syntax in automatically.

However, when it comes to personal sites like blogs, anonymous users don't want to be bamboozled by all of those scary looking buttons. I think the first row of buttons is more than adequate for them to use.

This code displays the first row of buttons when commenting in forums. The rest of the site (page creation, for instance) is unaffected: